Virginia E. Johnson, a writer, researcher and sex therapist who with her longtime collaborator, William H. Masters, helped make the frank discussion of sex in postwar America possible if not downright acceptable, died on Wednesday in St. Louis. She was 88. Her son, Scott Johnson, confirmed the death, The Associated Press reported.

Dr. Masters was a gynecologist on the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis when he began his research into human sexuality in the mid-1950s. Ms. Johnson, who joined him in 1957 after answering an advertisement for an assistant, worked alongside him for more than three decades. She was variously his research associate, wife and former wife.

It probably made more women happy. Freud had a whole thing about the superiority of the vaginal orgasm over the “immature” clitoral orgasm, leading a lot of women to feel inferior or that they were somehow flawed when they couldn’t achieve it. M&J proved there was only one kind.

How was Master’s and Johnson liberal? Maybe there’s a part of their research I don’t know about. Or Freud for that matter who was basically a conservative. His view of humanity was not rosy colored by any means.

It has destroyed many people with its inherent “self actualization” selfishness. No it has not “helped” many people asking questions like “what’s in it for me?” And breaking up families and justifying cutting people off. It is a sick and wrong field.

See “Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing” by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Freud was a nut. You can tell because he thought we were all nuts, and he considered himself typical (thus why he dismissed all claims to cocaine’s addictiveness, because he didn’t get hooked). So think of every odd trait Freud insisted everyone has (but you probably don’t, and most people clearly don’t) and understand Freud had them all. Still some useful and interesting insights into the human condition, but still a man with serious issues whose primary method of dealing with them was declaring they were normal.

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posted on 07/26/2013 10:39:35 AM PDT
by discostu
(Go do the voodoo that you do so well.)

I’m happy for Mrs. Buckeye, and all women are different, with different sensitivities and sensitiveness, but stimulation all leads, physiologically, to the same nerves and the same chain reaction. The issue was more about the inferiority or superiority of one over the other.

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